Next.js is infuriating (News)

What's up, nerds? Shaboy. I'm Jared, and this is change log news for the week of Monday, 09/01/2025, but recorded on Tuesday because Labor Day. If you need an uplifting story that displays the human spirit triumphing over tyranny, look no further than your local Taco Bell drive thru. My favorite fast food chain has been forced to rethink their AI ordering system after one heroic patron crashed it by ordering 18,000 waters. Now that's what I call high quality h two o. Okay. Let's get in to this week's news. Next j s is infuriating. Dominic Mecha finally decided to write a blog post because anger is the best motivator, and he's angry at Next JS. Quote, the Next JS devs have a vision, and it's either their way or the highway. Note that if it was just the middleware, I wouldn't be sitting here wasting away my weekend ranting about a React framework. Believe it or not, I've got better things to do. It's constant pain you encounter daily when working with Next. Js, end quote. After ranting some more, Dominic points to the issue tracker and calls it a dumpster fire, which I looked at it too, and I have a hard time to screen with him. Hacker news commenters had a field day with this post. The top comments, there were over 400 as I read this, vehemently agree with him. I'd summarize the core complaint as too many layers of abstraction with a sprinkle of not enough extensibility and a dash of Vercel based feature road map. Open source is one person. Josh Bressers was offended by the register's recent story titled Putin on the code. DOD reportedly relies on utility by a Russian dev. Quote, if you're not real smart, it seems like pointing out that an open source project is written by one person in a country you don't like is a bad thing. It could be, but it also could be that the software running the whole effing planet is written by one person in a country. We have no idea which country. It's not the same person, mind you, but it is one person, end quote. Josh goes on to point out with receipts that almost all open source is literally one person. Quote, a project exists called ecosystems that catalogs a lot of open source. Most of it, I would guess, but not all. They currently have 11,800,000 open source projects in their database. So what do we mean by one person is open source? What I mean is, if we look at the projects that ecosystems is tracking, how many have a single person maintaining that project? It's about 7,000,000 projects, end quote. He also looks at NPM package downloads and found that of the projects with over 1,000,000 downloads this month, which is a proxy for usefulness, about 6,000 of them have solo maintainers, while 6,800 of them have more than one maintainer. That's almost half. Why copy …